{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/isaiah/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T03:43:00.531Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":3,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":26},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"For behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the clever among artificers, and the one versed in enchantments."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children shall rule over them."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And the people shall be oppressed one by the other, and each by his neighbour; the child will be insolent against the elder, and the base against the honourable."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"When a man shall take hold of his brother, in his father's house, and shall say: Thou hast clothing; be our chief, and let this ruin be under thy hand;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"he will lift up his hand in that day, saying, I cannot be a healer, and in my house there is neither bread nor clothing; ye shall not make me a chief of the people."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth, because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people! they that guide thee mislead thee, and destroy the way of thy paths."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Jehovah setteth himself to plead, and standeth to judge the peoples."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their princes, saying: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard: the spoil of the poor is in your houses."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-out neck and wanton eyes, and go along mincing, and making a tinkling with their feet;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"therefore the Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"In that day the Lord will take away the ornament of anklets, and the little suns and crescents,"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"the pearl-drops, and the bracelets, and the veils,"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"the head-dresses, and the stepping chains, and the girdles, and the scent-boxes, and the amulets;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"the finger-rings, and the nose-rings;"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"the festival-robes, and the tunics, and the mantles, and the wallets;"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"the mirrors, and the fine linen bodices, and the turbans, and the flowing veils."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And it shall come to pass, instead of perfume there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe of display, a girding of sackcloth; brand instead of beauty."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the fight;"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground."}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 3 (DBT)","markdown":"[Isaiah 3](https://primebible.com/dbt/isaiah/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/isaiah/3 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}